Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Cos in the afternoon she does catering from the pub and then the evening she just works behind the bar . |
| 32 | With Sissy she eventually discovers him lying in a disused mine shaft , and is with him when he dies . |
| 33 | When she weans them on to meat she usually feeds them from the kill before she herself eats . |
| 34 | As Anne has a couple of children and is at home all day she often does lots of baking but also lots of nibbling ! |
| 35 | To this day she still hears the voices of guns . |
| 36 | The use of the plural is pregnant with implications that evidence she alone has seen shows that among Sotheby 's staff not just Peter Wilson had a share in the treasure . |
| 37 | Twice a week she vengefully looks in here to dust the place , and dirty all the dishes , and worry the bed . |
| 38 | … on the one hand , close to being submerged by the detritus of civilization whose broken-up quality she both registers and exemplifies … ; on the other hand , playing with that very sense of loss , that same detritus , and producing ( sometimes ) an exhilarating laughter . |
| 39 | Despite the depressed economy she still finds little real evidence of publishers pruning their lists and , as a consequence , there are ‘ too many major titles to be able to do justice to them all ’ |
| 40 | I have n't a thing in till her money goes in end of month she only gets paid end of month |
| 41 | GLAMOROUS grannie Barbara Flanagan never has to shop around when she fancies a new outfit she simply reaches into her stocks of material and rustles something up . |
| 42 | To maintain her control she mercilessly orders her servants about — This power is also exercised by the young girl France . |
| 43 | You know the pendant she always wears round her neck , shaped like a heart ? |
| 44 | But while Godfrey-Isaacs exposes the wound she also sees the joke . |
| 45 | and er they 're coming down here for the morning she always does it |
| 46 | In Middlemarch , George Eliot records Dorothea 's state of mind as she prepares to marry Mr Casaubon , a man she hardly knows : |
| 47 | She felt humiliated , sexually worthless and incapable of holding the man she still believes is ‘ the love of my life ’ . |
| 48 | The only man she ever sees is the wretched Mr Laker , to say ‘ good morning ’ to . |
| 49 | Unfortunately it does not follow that just because a woman is living with a man she necessarily has ( or wants ) his ‘ support ’ . |
| 50 | JA Surrey KT16 8AJ THE amount paid to the companion by your aunt is in order to achieve an enhanced interest in an asset she already owns , i.e. the ability to sell with vacant possession . |
| 51 | For the work of Sherman this show may only confirm the suspicions already held by many that , with the kind of success she now enjoys after the Saatchi purchase of her notorious nude self-portrait , her intention is less than subversive and takes shrewd advantage of the fruits of sensationalism Saddest of all however is that , within the context of this show , the nightmarish images of her latest offerings succeed better at making the female viewer feel the full impact of the implied degradation . |
| 52 | Allen 's attitude is playfully anarchic ; with a childlike spirit she gleefully undermines the serious , ‘ male ’ pose of the sculptor by knitting socks for her concrete sculpture , or producing what even she describes as ‘ grotesque object ’ . |
| 53 | Endesha Ida Mae Holland , the author of this veiled autobiography , is described in the programme as a popular lecturer and ‘ story-teller ’ : she works the same seam as Maya Angelou , Toni Morrison and Alice Walker ( whose spirit she fulsomely invokes , and whose book The Color Purple she implicitly recalls at every turn ) . |
| 54 | As her best friend , Carolyn Bartholomew observes of the woman she has known since they were schoolgirls : ‘ She is not a happy person but she once was and it is my dearest hope that one day she will find the happiness she truly deserves . ’ |
| 55 | Help her to fasten buckles by marking the comfortable hole she usually uses with a dab of coloured nail varnish . |
| 56 | ‘ When it 's her birthday she only gets holy pictures and holy water fonts , ’ Benny reported . |
| 57 | The thought of a cold classroom on an autumn evening is the last thing she probably wants ! |
| 58 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 59 | But the information she actually obtains from observing the price of her good tells her the total effect of these two influences and not their individual effects . |
| 60 | On the one hand she makes a speculative diagnosis of him , out of Adlerian psychology ; on the other hand she half believes — but ca n't quite bring herself to say — that the blame lies with England , for virtually expelling him a quarter-century before . |